Hal Abelson

"Intellectual Property, Copyrights, and Universities - an interview with Hal Abelson"

"Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement"

"What’s important is not just to develop the technology; it’s to develop the processes."

"Tcl for Web Nerds - short programming web tutorial authored in part by Abelson"

"See, in general, as systems designers, you’re forced with necessity to make decisions about how you’re going to do things, and in general, the way you’d like to retain flexibility is to never make up …"

"Giving it away helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can distract the universities from their missions to disseminate knowledge." - commmenting on MIT's Open …"

"Building the Infrastructure for Sustainable Educational Transformation" - MIT article concerning the Open Courseware program"

"is not really about computers -- and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes...and geom…"